PARIS, April 20 (Xinhua) -- French President Francois Hollande expressed Saturday wholehearted solidarity to the Chinese people and the government after a devastating earthquake hit China's southwest Sichuan Province. France salutes the courage and m...
BERLIN, April 20 (Xinhua) -- Nearly 2,000 Lufthansa flights scheduled for next Monday were cancelled because of a warning strike called by labor union ver.di. Lufthansa released the list of cancelled flights Saturday evening. By 9:00 p.m. (1900 GMT),...
MOSCOW, April 21 (Xinhua) -- All the 13 workers trapped in a coal mine in south central Russia have been rescued, local authorities said Sunday. All the miners were alive, and no one was hurt, regional emergency authorities said, adding the rescue op...
MOSCOW, April 21 (Xinhua) -- Russian rescuers were ready to assist quake-hit China with searching operation, emergency authorities said Sunday. An Ilyushin Il-76 with 71 rescue personnel from the Siberian regional center will fly out to China within...
LOS ANGELES, April 18 (Xinhua) -- The campus of California State University Los Angeles (CSULA) was evacuated Thursday due to a bomb threat. CSULA spokesman Paul Browning said at a press conference Thursday afternoon that the Police Department in the...
麻省理工学院发生枪击案 BOSTON, the United States, April 18 (Xinhua) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on Thursday night reported on its website that gunshots were reported late in the night on campus. At least one police o...
埃及法院判处现任总理1年监禁 CAIRO, April 17 (Xinhua) -- An Egyptian court sentenced Wednesday Prime Minister Hesham Qandil in absentia to a jail term of one year over failing to enforce a judiciary verdict to nationalize the Tanta Flax c...
NAIROBI, April 10 (Xinhua) -- At least 32 people were killed and 18,633 others displaced by flash floods caused by heavy rains in Kenya, the East African nation's Red Cross Society (KRCS) said Wednesday. The KRCS also reported 14 people were injured...
CAIRO, April 17 (Xinhua) -- Egypt's prosecution on Wednesday ordered arrest warrant and travel ban against 22 members affiliated to black bloc group over terrorist crimes, official news agency MENA reported. A report from national security authority...
ISTANBUL, April 17 (Xinhua) -- Turkish national carrier Turkish Airlines on Wednesday signed a deal with Europe's Airbus to buy 117 planes, marking the country's largest single order for planes. The order includes 25 Airbus A321, four A320, 53 A321 a...
SANAA, April 17 (Xinhua) -- A U.S. drone strike killed at least five al-Qaida militants in Yemen's central province of Dhamar on Wednesday night, an interior ministry official told Xinhua. Five al-Qaida operatives, including its leader in Dhamar prov...
CAIRO, April 17 (Xinhua) -- Egypt's former President Hosni Mubarak will be moved back to Tora Prison Hospital on Wednesday night, state-run Ahram Online reported. Preparations are made to move Mubarak from Maadi Military Hospital back to the prison h...
CAIRO, April 17 (Xinhua) -- Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood (MB) decided Wednesday to take part in Friday protests calling for cleansing the country's judicial authorities. The group, the main supporter of President Mohamed Morsi, said in a statement it d...
UNITED NATIONS, April 17 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday led the top UN officials in appealing for increased political and financial pressure on those who commit, command or condone sexual violence in war zones. Addressing a...
TEHRAN, April 17 (Xinhua) -- Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi said Wednesday that crude price is unlikely to fall below 100 U.S. dollars per barrel and the downward trend has stopped, Press TV reported. Oil prices below 100 U.S. dollars per barrel...
